Thursday, June 27, 2013

Dictum of the day, or on the essence of democracy

The essence of democracy is that the right to make law rests in the people and flows to the government, not the other way around. Freedom resides first in the people without need of a grant from government.

Hollingsworth v. Perry, 570 U.S. ___ (2013), Kennedy, J., dissenting

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